Danny Brooks Dalby

[photopress:m_00246eb99cee9c468281d90fd81c590e.jpg,thumb,alignright]Danny Brooks Dalby, the force behind the Genius + Love “Jazz & Swing for Kids” album, comes from the literary side of family entertainment and enrichment. â€œIâ€™ve been in childrenâ€™s publishing for probably 15, 16 years,â€ he says, by phone from his home in Nashville suburb of Lebanon. â€œI started out illustrating, and then I started both writing and illustrating books.

â€œFrom there, I started just developing entire lines of product. I busted away from Dalmation Press and sort of started my own publishing company,â€ he continues. â€œItâ€™s sort of a custom publishing. What I did was I started meeting with retailers with some ideas.”